PEOPLE v. WHITTER


54 A.D.2d 987 (1976)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Derek Whitter, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

November 29, 1976


Judgment reversed, on the law and the facts, and indictment dismissed.

Defendant's conviction rests upon a single sale of a substantial amount of heroin to two undercover agents. The record is clear that defendant helped arrange the sale solely at the behest and continued insistence of a confidential informant whom defendant had known previously. The heroin did not belong to defendant, but rather, to a codefendant whom defendant had not known prior to the night...

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